Legal Opinion
Clemons v. Crawford
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
Decided November 10, 2009No. 08-2807/08-2813/08-2894/08-2895PublishedCited by 150 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RILEY, Circuit Judge.
Eight condemned Missouri prisoners 1 appeal the dismissal of their 42 U.S.C. § 1983 action challenging the manner in which Missouri’s written lethal injection protocol might be implemented in future executions. The prisoners allege the State of Missouri, through its officers Larry Crawford, James Purkett, and Terry Moore (collectively, Missouri), has a “well-documented history of employing incompetent and unqualified personnel to oversee [the] crucial elements] of executions by lethal injection,” and “refusing properly to train the individuals to whom responsibility for…
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